Valentina Shevchenko, UFC 306 ceremonial weigh-in Credit score: Gabriel Gonzalez/Cageside Press
Amidst a flurry of combat bulletins late Wednesday, the UFC confirmed a long-rumored title combat within the girls’s flyweight division, one that can function co-headliner at UFC 315.
Valentina Shevchenko (24-4-1) will return on the occasion, taking up France’s Manon Fiorot (12-1) on the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec on Could 10, 2025.
The combat joins Belal Muhammad vs. Jack Della Maddalena for the promotion’s welterweight championship, which can headline the cardboard.
Shevchenko might be getting back from her September win over Alexa Grasso, which noticed her win again the UFC girls’s flyweight title and shut out her rivalry (for now) with the Mexican star. The pair are 1-1-1 of their profession collection, with Grasso submitting “Bullet” in March of 2023 to dethrone the then-dominant champ. After stunning combat followers, Grasso discovered herself in a rematch, retaining her title after battling to a draw. A 3rd combat adopted, with Shevchenko incomes a unanimous choice win at UFC 306/Noche UFC again in September.
In her first title reign, Valentina Shevchenko secured seven title defenses, the longest title protection streak amongst girls in UFC historical past.
Manon Fiorot has not tasted defeated for the reason that very first combat of her professional profession, in opposition to Leah Mccourt, who fights at featherweight lately. She’s received her first seven fights underneath the UFC banner, together with victories over former champion Rose Namajunas, former title challenger and Invicta champ Jennifer Maia, and fellow contender Erin Blanchfield. Fiorot has not competed since her March 2024 choice victory over Blanchfield, which can make it over a 12 months between fights for the 35-year previous, who sat in a holding sample as Shevchenko and Grasso completed out their rivalry.
UFC 315 marks the promotion’s first journey to Montreal in a decade.
